Refrigerator



'UNITE JOHN rioirRELL, or LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

REFRIGERATOR.

Appiicatin sied November 22, 1924. serial No. 751,655.

The invention provides a refrigerator de- `signed chiefly for domestic use and which utilizes the ice to the best possible advantage in the cooling of tlie'interior of the re- 5 frigerator so as to preservel the contents.'l

Other-objects and advantages will be apparent and suggest themselves 'as' the nature f of the invention is understood.

Tliile the drawings illustratean embodiment of the `invention it is to be understood that in adapting the same to meet different conditions Vand requirements, various changes in the forni, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the nature-fof the invention. y

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of the speciiication- Figure 1, is a front view of a refrigerator embodying'the invention, l

Figure 2 isv an enlarged sectional view ontlie line 2 2 of Figure .1, and

Figure 3 is a sectional vie-w on the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

.Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and designated in the several views `of t-lie l drawings by like reference characters. 1

The numeral 10 designatestlie body of the refrigerator which consists of a boX or Chest of any approved construction, the same be- V ing closed at its front-*by double-.doors 11 which are made secure by pivoted fastenings 12. An opening 4is formed centrally r 'Within the top of the box or chest and a tapering receptacle 13 ofsheetmetal isv suspended within the opening and constitutes aVV 1 container for ice, the bottom 14 being upwardly deflecte'dso as to shed v'the water to a drain ypipe 15. Removable cones orA plates 16 are disposed within the receptacle 13 at fdifferent elevations and serve asv baiies to direct the water from the .melting icefout- Vwardly against the sides of the-receptacle 1?- so as to cool the same and these platesgfur- `tliermore mayreceive and support the ice. The receptacle isv spaced from the walls of thebox or chesty as indicatedinost clearly in ing of the air andthe utilization of a maxi- A Figure 3, thereby insuring' va thorough coolmelting of the i'ce, thewaterlof whichV is div Y l rected against the" Walls of the AV'receptacle which are thereby thoroughly cooled; 'The space surrounding the receptacle 13 maybe: utilized fortliestorag'ev of foodto bekept cool and the receptacle may be of any conf struction and outline so long as it tapers from top to bottom andvis disposed to leave a space between its sides and the opposing sides of the'box or chest. y

In charging the refrigerator, the cones '1G ai'e removed and cracked ice is then placed in the bottom.

receptacle is filled with broken" ice.' A s the trickle down Vthe wa-llsof the receptacle past n n Thereupon the lower conc' 16 is placed in position, and so onr until thev -ice nielts,the partitions or cones withhold the edges of the Cones or partitions. rIn' this manner' a large surface will ybe cooled by the film of drip water and the ice'in part being supported above the bottom will be in afposition to produce a greater cooling effect than if held on t-he bottom alone.

lVhat is claimed is Y v1. An ice .receptacle for` a refrigerator having itsbottom vdeflected upwardlyV from its edgesto its center, a substantially conical ice -supportingvineans within thel receptacle spaced above the bot-torn,` the base of said supportingmeans beingnlof slightly less cross :y

sectional' area than the interior of the receptac'le'in the corresponding plane whereby water is adaptedto trickle down the wall of the receptacle, 'said supporting means be-.lv

ing displaceable to' facilitate the placing of A cebelow the saine. y Y l 2. An ice receptacle for` a refrigerator 9 0,v having an upstanding substantially conicalv bottom adapted to support ice, anupset siibstantially conical plate above said bottom` of slightly less cross sectional area than' the i interior of the'rece'ptacle in the corresponding Dlane, whereby. water is adapted tov trickle down the wall of the' rec'eptacle,'said plate being removable for the positioning vof ice below the lsaine and on said bottoni.. Y

1n testimony whereof I aiiX my signature.

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